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AVC: Where To Find Strong Talent2012-05-29 23:47:00
Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson includes as an ideal resource for locating new talent to join your team. In a recent blog post, Wilson discusses how entrepreneurs can find and recruit strong talent for their companies. Check out the full article here.More About:Find

Behance Helps Web Designers Increase Visibility2012-05-22 21:18:00
Joomlavision walks readers through setting up their Behance profiles, portfolios & ProSites to gain optimal exposure, highlighting the network as an ideal tool for web designers. In addition to praising the site, they included some great visuals from ProSite:
and profiles too:
Read the full article here.

Web Designers are Using the Behance Network to Increase Visibility2012-05-14 20:17:00
Designmodo reports that; "Behance gives web designers the opportunity to display their work, network with peers, and find an easier path to exposure than they would with traditional marketing practices. With millions of users worldwide and a high amount of traffic, the Behance network has exploded in growth and is attracting not only great web designers, but also the people who hire them."
Read the full article here.

Behance teams up with Pinterest to improve attribution2012-05-10 19:52:00
On May 1, Behance partnered with Pinterest, along with Flickr, YouTube and Vimeo, to drastically improve attributions on pins.
In an interview with Wired, Behance CEO Scott Belsky explained some of the issues the creative community faced that lead to this new feature:
“The greatest design work, illustration, photography — and any other creation — has the tendency to be shared on other websites, often times without a link back or even a proper credit,” says Scott Belsky, cofounder of Behance, a community of creative professionals. “As a result, creative careers often fail to benefit from the exposure that their work receives.”
Read the full article here
For more insights from Scott on the Pinterest collaboration, read his blog post on the launchMore About:Teams
, Improve

Graphic design students learn to use social-networking tools2012-04-25 17:51:00
A recent article on My Central Jersey a graphic design instructor at Anthem Institute in North Brunswick explains why it's important for students to take advantage of tools like Behance. She states:
"We use two tools specifically, LinkedIn and Behance.net. Using the sites together has greatly increased the number of interviews that our students have gotten.”
Check out the full article here.More About:Social
, Design
, Tools
, Social Networking
, Networking

Riccardo Capuzzo (the Design Blog) Gives Behance a Shout Out in Italian Vog2012-04-19 00:36:00
In a recent interview for Italian
Vogue, Art Director and Editor-in-Chief Riccardo Capuzzo, lists Behance as "a must-visit design blog." Capuzzo says "[Behance] is a social network for designers where you can publish your own portfolio. I use it as a blog and visit it every day to see if there is any new interesting work."
Read the full article here.More About:Design
, Blog

Graphic Designer Lands Gap Contract via Behance2012-04-19 00:35:00
"Dominic Le-Hair, a graphic designer from Dogsthorpe, has been catapulted from crafting free type-faces in snatched moments, to seeing his work used in a major advertising campaign for GAP.
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Creative directors working on the GAP campaign tracked Dominic down to his family home in Dogsthorpe after coming across his eye-catching alphabets at the online portfolio site Behance.net."
Peterborough GraphicDesigner
, Dominic Le-Hair, was recently featured on the evening Telegraph and his recent career-changing campaign with the Gap is traced back to his Behance portfolio. We love hearing success stories like this one!
Read the full article here.More About:Contract

Behance Named as Top Portfolio-Building Tool on Mashable2012-04-19 00:28:00
A recent Mashable post named Behance.net as one of the top 5 user-friendly tools for building your online portfolio. Here's what they had to say:
Summary: Behance is a platform for creative professionals to gain exposure and manage their careers. Users can create multimedia portfolios that showcase their work to millions of visitors.
Best Feature: Behance turns your work into an online gallery; It claims to get 15 times the traffic of all other leading portfolio sites combined (including Carbonmade, the next site on our list). Recruiters can find and track talent and post jobs for the creative professionals on the site.
What Needs Work: In order to have your own personal portfolio website, rather than just a profile on Behance, you need to join ProSite. This costs $11 a month, but it allows you to create a full website without coding, and it syncs with your Behance portfolio.
Ideal User: Any creative professional wishing to showcase multimedia projects — images, text, ...More About:Building
, Portfolio
, Tool

Weighing Your Options: Designer Portfolio Sites2012-04-04 20:02:00
Designer Ben Whitesell researched and evaluated the best online portfolio tools for creatives in a recent blog post, and we're thrilled that ProSite came out on top. ProSite is Behance's completely customizable personal portfolio builder. Here's some of what Ben had to say:
"I have had a great experience dealing with [Behance] through my free profile and did quite a bit of research into other hosted portfolio sites like Cargo Collective and the like. But, because the people behind Behance have been readily accessible via twitter, their blog, and forums, I felt comfortable going with them. The big selling point being how easy it was to set up a site, attach my own personal domain, and even drop in Google Analytics for tracking.
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I really like the level of customization that Prosite offers for webpages. Everything is easy adjusted from an administration panel and you can upload custom images for your header or for the gallery buttons. Columns for page layout can be adjusted to...More About:Portfolio
, Sites
, Options
, Designer

Weighing Your Options: Designer Portfolio Sites2012-04-04 20:02:00
Designer Ben Whitesell researched and evaluated the best online portfolio tools for creatives in a recent blog post, and we're thrilled that ProSite came out on top. ProSite is Behance's completely customizable personal portfolio builder. Here's some of what Ben had to say:
"I have had a great experience dealing with [Behance] through my free profile and did quite a bit of research into other hosted portfolio sites like Cargo Collective and the like. But, because the people behind Behance have been readily accessible via twitter, their blog, and forums, I felt comfortable going with them. The big selling point being how easy it was to set up a site, attach my own personal domain, and even drop in Google Analytics for tracking.
...
I really like the level of customization that Prosite offers for webpages. Everything is easy adjusted from an administration panel and you can upload custom images for your header or for the gallery buttons. Columns for page layout can be adjusted...More About:Portfolio
, Sites
, Options
, Designer

Fast Company: Behance Gets an Upgrade2012-03-20 18:15:00
Fast Company
details some of the features you'll find in Behance's re-launched site - including The Explore Tab, The Activity Feed, and Detailed Analytics - as well as outlining how Behance is delivering more than ever on its mission to organize and empower the creative world.
[Read Full Article Here]More About:Fast

TechCrunch Praises Behance's Redesign2012-03-20 18:01:00
Today, TechCrunch published a detailed article covering the new redesign that was released today on The Behance Network.
Read the full article to hear news about how Behance's powerful new tools for creative professional are reducing the friction in how creative work is discovered by others.
[Click to read the full article]More About:Redesign

Compelling Portraits of Circus Performers2012-02-27 19:11:00
Flavorwire discovered Andrew Shaylor's Behance portfolio and featured his compelling portraits of circus performers in their photography roundup.
Check out the full article here.

Wired Magazine mentions Scott Belsky as Tastemaker on Quarterly.co2012-01-27 16:27:00
As mentioned in WiredMagazine
, you can now follow our CEO and co-founder Scott
Belsky on Quarterly!
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